Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is it. We accept that travel at this point in time, for non-essential reasons, does not make any sense given the conditions, particularly across Europe. However, I accept that the aviation sector requires a framework so that it knows how to operate into the future while accepting that we do not know exactly what the community situation will be at that stage. People will still travel so I back what was said by my colleague in that we probably need something better than what is happening with the passenger locator form, and some form of operational testing. I would like Dr. Holohan to go into the ins and outs regarding validations. I accept that he talked about specific settings. To a degree, some of these do not seem to be something NPHET would propose from the point of view of air travel.

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